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Eval warns when its directory overlaps the plugin's own component paths

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Eval warns when your eval directory overlaps paths the plugin already loads components from.

--eval-dir
What

Before running, the eval command reads the component paths declared in plugin.json (commands, agents, skills, outputStyles, themes, workflows, monitors, mcpServers, lspServers, hooks), follows symlinks into the real tree, and reports when the eval directory sits inside one, because files written there could be loaded as plugin components.

Details
  • With --eval-dir this is a hard error, unless the run writes nothing into the plugin.
  • When the directory came from the manifest or the default, it is a warning that suggests --output-dir or running from the plugin root.
Evidence

files written there may be loaded as plugin components

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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